Dream Keeper
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| Studio album by Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra | ||||
| Released | October 1990 | |||
| Recorded | April 4–5, 1990 | |||
| Studio | Clinton, NYC | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 48:23 | |||
| Label | DIW (Japan) Polydor (US/France) Blue Note (1991 reissue) | |||
| Producer | Hans Wendl | |||
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Dream Keeper is an album by jazz bassist Charlie Haden with his Liberation Music Orchestra, recorded in 1990 and released in Japan on DIW Records and in the US through Polydor Records. It was reissued in the US the following year on Blue Note Records.
This album is the first by Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra since The Ballad of the Fallen (1983).
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| DownBeat | [2] |
DownBeat's Art Lange wrote, "How rare it is to hear music —beautiful, inspiring music—with a conscience and a soul".[2]
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance[3] and was voted "Jazz album of the year" in DownBeat's 1991 critics' poll.[4] Haden, Carla Bley and Ray Anderson also placed first in that year's Acoustic Bass, Composer and Trombone poll categories, respectively.[4]
